guilty - Story 59027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, fantastical creatures Lily drew were becoming a burden for Elena. "Boo" was a bubbly, purple monster with a penchant for mischief. Elena recognised every detail, every whimsical feature. She’d made Boo when she was a child.

She offered to read Lily stories, but her voice was tight, strained. She started to obsess over her own mistakes, things she had done that she felt brought pain.

She knew what the drawings meant, a testament to her childhood and the choices she'd made. The knowledge became a weight she carried with her everywhere.

Emotion: guilty

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.62 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion guilty. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 guilty stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the guilty emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the guilty vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.492
`L`	0.398
`탓`	0.354
`been`	0.323
`ashamed`	0.319

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.400
`(!)`	-0.279
`la`	-0.276
`😍`	-0.274
`"!`	-0.264